They said it: All four leading candidates for governor—Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republicans Scott Angelle, Jay Dardenne and David Vitter—have responded to a questionnaire from the LSU Alumni Association, which has posted the full responses online. The association called on the candidates to respond to six pointed questions regarding higher education in Louisiana. The association says its publication of the candidates’ full responses does not indicate an endorsement of any one candidate. Check out the candidates’ complete responses.
Coming to light: A federal judge has unsealed several documents connected to two prominent figures in former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s corruption case, revealing more details of a financial dispute involving the former government witnesses. Local media outlets are reporting that New Orleans businessman Scott Sewell contends in the documents that he is a whistleblower who should be compensated for more than $5 million in losses he suffered at the hands of former business partner Frank Fradella. The Associated Press has the full story.
More in store: Global oil markets will remain oversupplied next year as demand growth slows and Iranian exports are poised to recover with the lifting of sanctions, the International Energy Agency forecasts. Bloomberg reports that while supplies outside OPEC will decline in 2016 in response to lower prices, the IEA predicts demand growth will ease from this year’s five-year high amid a weaker outlook for the world economy, allowing the crude surplus to endure. “The market may be off balance for a while longer,” the Paris-based adviser to 29 nations says in its monthly report. Read the full story.
